Happy Birthday Gorgeous

Hi everyone, this week I was chatting with my friend, and upline, Melissa Gifford about patterned paper. I love patterned paper but I haven’t used a lot of it in my cards. Melissa shared a card with me which featured just a strip of patterned paper and it was GORGEOUS! I asked her if she wouldn’t mind if I CASEd it and was thrilled when she said yes. (CASE = Copy And Share Everything). Originally, I had just planned to CASE the design but she had used the Bloom by Bloom stamp set and the coordinating Happiness Blooms Designer Series Paper and I realised I hadn’t used these items in a while. I dragged them out with the intention of making a different card but before I knew it I had CASEd Melissa’s original card.

Here’s the Card…

Isn’t it great! I LOVE this paper and the coordinating stamp set (both of which are retiring when the current catalogue ends on June 3, 2019). I’m so grateful to be part of such a caring and sharing community. Melissa was so gracious to share her card design with me.

Hi everyone, I was having a great conversation with a crafty friend and we were discussing patterned paper. Stampin’ Up! has some amazing designs in its range. I know a lot of people are paper hoarders and I’ve certainly been guilty of this in the past too. Our conversation inspired me to create a card where the patterned paper was prominent. The card design is based on a card I made previously and which I LOVED so much I’ve been wanting to try again for a long time. (This card remains one of my all time favourites).

The paper I’ve chosen is from the Happiness Blooms Designer Series Paper pack. I love the bright and happy colours but sometimes I find they are a bit overwhelming especially when compared with my usual colour palette. In instances such as these, vellum is your best friend! I die cut a rectangle of vellum with the Big Shot and it immediately softened the look of the paper. I’m a big fan of this technique!

I used the fine-tip glue to adhere the vellum panel to the patterned paper. If you use a light hand you won’t have any squeeze out from behind the die cut and it will look seamless. Unfortunately, I didn’t realise there was a bit of a blob of adhesive so you can see a bit of a mark above the ‘pp’ of happy. Still, it’s not so bad. I also used the Happiness Blooms Enamel Dots to add a bit of interest to my card as it was pretty plain. An added advantage of this embellishment is that I could use one of the dots to secure the vellum at the bottom of my card.

Here’s the Card…

It really is a quick and easy card to make so you could have a few in your stash for any last minute requirements. I hope you’ll give it a try.

Hi everyone, my sweet niece recently turned 17 and I wanted to make her a birthday card which was colourful and fun but not childish. The How Sweet It Is DSP seemed like the perfect choice as I knew she would love the gorgeous colours – they are so bright and happy. When I sat down to create my mojo got up and walked away. I’m sure we have all been there. I wasn’t sure which way to go. Fortunately, the Stampin’ Up! catalogues are filled with many gorgeous samples and I picked out a design to CASE (Copy and Share Everything). As I always remind you, you are welcome to CASE ideas but you do need to give credit where it is due.

I didn’t have all of the items/tools the original designer had at her disposal so I had to improvise and I was really happy with how it worked out. Best of all, my niece was very happy with it too.

Here’s the card…

Those colours!! I think they are so gorgeous. I’m going to miss this suite when the catalogue period finishes in early June.

Here’s the card…

TIP: Use the Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets on the back of your cardstock before running the die through your Big Shot. This makes it so much easier to layer the dies as I have done in the card above as well as sticking down the more fiddly die cuts.

Hi, I know I have been posting a LOT of cards using the Painted Harvest bundle set lately (and truth be told, I have more to come)! You’d think I didn’t own any other stamps…and we all know that isn’t true. 🙂 I really want to share how fabulous this stamp set is and how you can achieve so many different, and wonderful, cards using it. I LOVE when I can really maximise my investment in a stamp set and I really want you all to be able to do the same.

For today’s cards, I’ve stepped it up a little by using a stencil and embossing paste. SO FUN! I had envisaged a scene whereby the flowers climbed their way up a brick wall. The “brick wall” stencil from the Pattern Party Decorative Masks set was the perfect choice. I started off by creating two backgrounds using this stencil – one in portrait and one in landscape orientation. One of the reasons I make multiple cards is that it is easy to do so when you already have your supplies out, especially if it is something ‘messy’ (like embossing paste) or where I think I might make a mistake.

You might notice all of the flowers, on both cards, are not the same size. I had wanted to layer the flowers but thought they might have looked a little odd if they were the same size. To ensure they were a little different, I did not stamp the base layer, only the top stamp and then fussy cut around the outside. I think this tiny detail really helps pull the look together.

Here’s the first card…

For the second card, I had originally thought of adding five flowers in front of the brick wall but when I had it all placed it looked a little too busy. I decided to stick with three (remembering that a odd number of elements generally looks better than an even number) and it looks so pretty!

Here’s the card…

Don’t you love how two cards using pretty much the same products can look so different! Stamping is so much fun!

Hi, I very nearly didn’t share this card with you all today. There’s just something about it which doesn’t work. The reason I am sharing it is that I wanted to show you that not every card is a ‘work of art’ but that doesn’t mean it should be packed away or destroyed. I think someone would still be happy to receive this card. I also have it in the back of my mind that I might be able to re-create it at some stage but in a way which really improves the original design. The card is made using the wonderful Painted Harvest stamp set and coordinating punch.

TIP:
Don’t forget that you don’t have to stick to using the stamps which come in the set; you can mix and match with other stamp sets. That’s what I’ve done for this card. I’ve used the “Happy Birthday” sentiment from the Happy Birthday Gorgeous stamp set to make this a birthday card.

Here’s the card…

Happy Birthday

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Happy Stamping!

Supplies Used:

Listed below are the supplies used to create the above project. If the stamp set comes in different types (such as clear mount or wood mount), I link to them both. At the end, I have also linked to other ‘staple’ items you might need to finish the project (such as adhesive and a paper trimmer).

Hi Everyone, today I’m featuring three cards using the Falling Flowers stamp set. If you like heat embossing, and really who doesn’t love watching the heat melt the embossing powder to create such a glossy, shiny finish, this style of card might be for you. I stamped lots of the images from the stamp set using the whisper white ink on whisper white cardstock. I sprinkled the embossing powder on as I went because it is quite difficult to see white ink on white cardstock. I then heated all the embossing powder and set to colouring the images. I squeezed the ink pads so a bit of ink remained on the lid and used this as my palette. I then painted all the images. Such a soft pretty look, don’t you think? All that remained was to die cut the images out and layer them onto the card panel in an appealing way.

If you aren’t a fan of so much white embossing, that isn’t a problem! For the next card, I swapped out the white embossing on the base of the card and used versamark ink in its place. It gives a much softer look.

Can you imagine how pretty this card design might be if you used pink pirouette or wisteria wonder as a base? Or perhaps, you could do all the stamping with night of navy or early espresso and create a monochromatic look? Isn’t it so much fun to experiment with colours?

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Happy Stamping!

Supplies Used:

Listed below are the supplies used to create the above project. If the stamp set comes in different types (such as clear mount or wood mount), I link to them both. At the end, I have also linked to other ‘staple’ items you might need to finish the project (such as adhesive and a paper trimmer).

The Birthday Blooms stamp set is, as you can see from my recent posts, a definite favourite of mine. Today I have five cards to share as well as a process video. This time I have used the Stampin’ Write markers to colour the images. My motivation in sharing these cards is to show how you can achieve a different look just by changing up the colouring medium and the colour.

Happy Birthday

For this card, we have moved away from pinks straight to blues. Marina Mist is one of my favourite colours in the Stampin’ Up! range and I’ve been using it a lot recently. I’ve also used the Lots of Labels Framelits dies to make my sentiment stand out. I used two different sizes of the labels dies, however, I ran the larger die through the die cut machine twice as I didn’t want it to be as big as it is normally. I then trimmed off any excess. I also used the Marina Mist ink pad to colour my cardstock as I had run out of the Marina Mist cardstock.

Happy Birthday

For this card, I decided to go for a really soft blue look. I used the Soft Sky Marker to colour the petals. I then added more of this colour to the areas where I needed it to be darker. In some places, I added two or three layers of colour. I also matted the stamped panel on Soft Sky cardstock.

Thanks for stopping by and viewing my cards and video today. I hope it has been informative. Now it is time for me to give the Birthday Blooms set a bit of a break and give some love to some of my other stamps. Don’t be surprised if it does pop up again soon though as I really do love it!

Supplies Used:

Listed below are the supplies used to create the above project. If the stamp set comes in different types (such as clear mount or wood mount), I link to them both. At the end, I have also linked to other ‘staple’ items you might need to finish the project (such as adhesive and a paper trimmer).

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